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I made this late at night on my version of photoshop. What I did was collect some renders from a site called www.planetrenders.net and I got the two pictures of those characters (Ichigo and Ichigo: Final Getusga Tensho) off the Internet. I made a new file, 400pixels by 150 pixels and then added the two pictures together, moving them about with colour, even making a blur copy of the front image to make it look like he has appeared out of nowhere really fast. I used the render (which I modified myself to make it black with red outlines) to be what its called in the anime bleach: reitsu (which is also the appearance of his getusga tensho ability.) The reason I made the second character the same colour as the render is because that is what Ichigo is combined with his getusga which is called Saigo no Getsuga Tensho (which just means Final Getsuga tensho).

For the effects I got a brush tool and lightly brushed along the bottom to make it like a cloud or smoke effect, for some faded lighting around the centre I used a marquee tool and changed the feather to 40px and then dragged the selected and it turned out like that. I had been experimenting with the tools to something of my liking.

For some finishing touches I used the polygonal lasso tool and cut around the edges to make an interesting shape, which then I duplicated the layer and followed a tutorial to make it look crisp. discovering new techniques which I'll use in the future. Finally I finished the whole thing off with making a border around my image with the stroke tool in the blending options along with drop shadow, bevel and inner glow, I then used a font I got from 1001fonts.com and typed my name I use for many things online (like my blog).